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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1714
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In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
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Aleksandr Tyshler
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1928
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Born in Eisenstadt (in Burgenland) and educated in Mattersdorf and Breslau, Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a prominent rabbinic and halakhic leader. After living in Lissa, Prussia, he served as rabbi in…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century
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The influence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) on German culture owed much to the salon society of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hostess of a noted salon in Berlin, she was…
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Date Unknown, early 19th century
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This etching of a Jewish woman from Thrace (a region located in present day Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey) is from Livre curieux contenant la naive représentation des habits des femmes des diverses…
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Wenceslaus Hollar
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Arundel, Kingdom of Great Britain (Arundel, United Kingdom)
Date:
1644
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And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
Contributor:
Yocheved Saks
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Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1977
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This drawing by Else Lasker-Schüler appeared on the frontispiece of her 1912 novel Mein Herz: Ein Liebes Roman (My Heart: A Novel of Love). Lasker-Schüler created a fantastical world in her poems and…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1912